Hi All! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We travelled down to Denver to celebrate with our two daughters’ families. We found out our youngest will add another grandchild to our family next July. We have three granddaughters now, so we are wondering if a little boy might show up. Either way, it’s great news.

The downside to not having the feast at our place is that we had NO leftovers! Debi went to the store the next day and we did our own Thanksgiving feast. But by the third day, when asked if turkey enchiladas was OK, I offered to go get a pizza!

I took the day off from baling hay (been working on it off and on for two weeks) and FINALLY got done last Friday. Had to baler break down a couple times, a couple rain showers delayed things for a couple days each, and then ended up fighting ant hills (mud balls) pulled into the baler and breaking shear bolts, each one requiring turning the baler backwards by hand with a big lever wrench and then pulling the hay and mud balls out of the pickup with a hay hook, which is laborious work. Broke about 15 shear bolts all total and had 3 belt failures (requiring taking the belt to a shop and having it relaced, the closest one being 23 miles away), then reinstalling the belt. Also had a bearing fail the first day of baling after about 10 bales and by the time I got the last bale wrapped with twine and ejected the roller was smoking hot... (in a bad way, unlike the babe!) Spent 2 days chasing the bearings down for it and a few hours putting it back together.

Glad to have it done. Made 80-something bales; we finished after dark and Jay didn't get a good count.

We had T-giving at Mom's in Shiner; Julie brought the turkey and dressing, we brought all the sides, including the cranberry hooch (cranberry sauce with liquor in it) and Jay brought rolls and drinks, I made a pineapple upside down cake, Jay brought pie. Had a good meal and a nice time, next day it was back to baling hay.